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They tell you horses go crazy at the sight or smell of a bear or a lion, but these didn't.
The discarded papers inside were sodden, there was a glint of liquid at the bottom, and the smell of whisky was strong and distinct.
there was much to grok, loose ends to puzzle over and fit into his growing -- all that he had seen and heard and been at the Archangel Foster Tabernacle ( not just cusp when he and Digby had come face to face alone ) why Bishop Senator Boone made him warily uneasy, how Miss Dawn Ardent tasted like a water brother when she was not, the smell of goodness he had incompletely grokked in the jumping up and down and wailing --
The subfamily can be easily recognized by its characteristic smell ( the smell of garlic and onions, singular enough to be called " garlic odour "), by the very soft, fleshy leaves and the umbel-like inflorescence at the end of a stem ( scape ), which has small to medium flowers with a superior ovary.
According to Robert Evans, head of Paramount Pictures at the time, Coppola also did not initially want to direct the film because he feared it would glorify the Mafia and violence, and thus reflect poorly on his Sicilian and Italian heritage ; on the other hand, Evans specifically wanted an Italian-American to direct the film because his research had shown that previous films about the Mafia that were directed by non-Italians had fared dismally at the box office, and he wanted to, in his own words, " smell the spaghetti ".
There are at least eleven main aromatic chemicals in the fur, although indole and 3-methylindole are responsible for most of the smell.
* Signal transduction at the intracellular domain of transmembrane receptors, including recognition of taste, smell and light.
", and " The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
He states in his work, Gynecology, that “ a suitable person will be literate, with her wits about her, possessed of a good memory, loving work, respectable and generally not unduly handicapped as regards her senses sight, smell, hearing, sound of limb, robust, and, according to some people, endowed with long slim fingers and short nails at her fingertips .” Soranus also recommends that the midwife be of sympathetic disposition ( although she need not have borne a child herself ) and that she keep her hands soft for the comfort of both mother and child.
The odour of combustion of this form has a characteristic garlic smell, and samples are commonly coated with white "( di ) phosphorus pentoxide ", which consists of tetrahedra with oxygen inserted between the phosphorus atoms and at their vertices.
When the six nobles gathered outside, Oebares placed his hands beside the nostrils of Darius's horse, who became excited at the smell and neighed.
Acute senses of smell and hearing give antelopes the ability to perceive danger at night out in the open ( when predators are often on the prowl ).
This ability to smell helps to locate patchily distributed prey at sea and may also help locate their nests within nesting colonies.
People with an MCS diagnosis showed no differences in these parameters when they were exposed to clean air or to solvents at a concentration too low to smell.
Consequently, a lightning strike observed at a very close distance will be accompanied by a sudden clap of thunder, with almost no perceptible time lapse, and the smell of ozone ( O < sub > 3 </ sub >).
There are at least four separate tales about what happened to strand Philoctetes on his journey to Troy, but all indicate that he received a wound on his foot that festered and had a terrible smell.
The lack of the sense of smell at birth, usually due to genetic factors, is referred to as congenital anosmia.
After their daughter Puanga is born, Tāwhaki washes her, but expresses disgust at the smell.
), it was possible to eliminate the smoke and smell, or at least render it to undetectable levels.
The presence of thin sheets of cream coloured mycelium, giving off a strong smell of mushrooms, beneath the bark at the base of the trunk or stem, sometimes extending upwards, or a gum or resin exuding from cracks in the bark of conifers, indicates that honey fungus is a likely cause of problems.
He hints at its color in Dune Messiah ( 1969 ) when he notes that Guild Navigator Edric " swam in a container of orange gas ... His tank's vents emitted a pale orange cloud rich with the smell of the geriatric spice, melange.
A 1995 study at the University of Bern showed that women appear to be attracted to the smell of men who have different MHC profiles from their own, and that oral contraceptives reversed this effect.

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The forensic importance of this fly is that it is the first insect to come in contact with carrion because they have the ability to smell death from up to ten miles ( 16 km ) away.
* Aniwye is a skunk spirit and was the first skunk to be given the smell by Nanabozho when he was starving.
Nefertem represented both the first sunlight and the delightful smell of the Egyptian blue lotus flower, having arisen from the primal waters within an Egyptian blue water-lily, Nymphaea caerulea.
Avicenna was also the first to divide human perception into the five external senses ( the classical senses of hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch known since antiquity ) and the five internal senses which he discovered himself.
What is striking from the first reading of C & S3 is the almost complete disappearance of medieval references, the game was now very orientated toward the fantastic, imagination and even less near constant concerns of the previous editions, namely some historical realism and a strong smell of medieval Europeans.
At its first experience of smell, the consciousness of the statue is entirely occupied by it ; and this occupancy of consciousness is attention.
During the battle of Dien Bien Phu, coolies were in charge of burying the corpses – the first days only, after they were abandoned hence a terrible smell according to veterans – and they had the dangerous job of gathering supply packets delivered in drop zones while the Việt Minh artillery was firing hard to destroy the crates.
They are named " mock-orange " in reference to their flowers, which in wild species look somewhat similar to those of oranges and lemons ( Citrus ) at first glance, and smell of orange flowers and jasmine ( Jasminum ).
The smell of this compound repels other males, thus ensuring the first male's paternity of the eggs — a form of chemical mate guarding.
In addition to being able to view this rare animal species, the nearby Giant Panda Discovery Center has interactive exhibits that let the visitor experience first hand what the animals smell and sound like.
The first thing one notices after opening a pack of nattō is its distinctive smell, somewhat akin to a pungent cheese.
This is the first time he felt a smell as being " good ".
As he travels, he first avoids a city, then towns, then starts avoiding people that he can smell that are miles away.
In the first stage of the disease, septicaemia occurs and leads to the classic triad of undulant fevers, sweating ( often with characteristic smell, likened to wet hay ), and migratory arthralgia and myalgia.
Blow-flies are usually the first insects to come in contact with carrion because they have the ability to smell dead animal matter from up to away.
In the first year of growth, plants form clumps of round shaped, slightly wrinkled leaves, that when crushed smell like garlic.
Within the first day, the smell of Zosima's body is already unbearable.
for brunettes ), L ' Heure Attendue ( a wonderful, unique oriental perfume ), Divine Folie ( a floral vanilla ), Câline ( a wonderful chypre perfume, similar to the much later Diorling by Christian Dior ), Moment Suprême ( a perfume based on lavender ), Colony ( which had a strong pineapple note ), Chaldée ( Patou's Huile de Chaldée sun oil had become so popular, many customers were buying it purely for its smell, therefore, Chaldée the perfume ( a dry musk ) was produced ), Le Sien ( one of the first perfumes for men and women ), and Cocktail ( literally a floral cocktail ).
He first became interested in becoming a chef when he visited his brother's pastry shop in a nearby city and was delighted by the smell of fresh fruit in the kitchen.
For the first DVD release of the film the smell of glue was changed due to, as Waters states, " political correctness ".
Philosophical attempts to rationalize why different substances have different properties ( color, density, smell ), exist in different states ( gaseous, liquid, and solid ), and react in a different manner when exposed to environments, for example to water or fire or temperature changes, led ancient philosophers to postulate the first theories on nature and chemistry.
" You could almost smell it from the very first reading that took place ; this is going to be an overwhelming hit ," said Hill.
The designated charger is then given 60 seconds to progress his or her way up the six levels of the board by choosing one of the five spaces on a level and correcting a blooper, a factual statement with an incorrect word creating a pun ( e. g., " The B & O was the first American passenger < u > smell </ u >", with train as the correct answer ).
By pairing that stimulus ( smell ) with another stimulus ( e. g., a light ), the second stimulus can obtain the function of the first stimulus, given that the predictive relationship between the two stimuli is maintained.

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